China Nonferrous Metals Group holds talks on Kazakh copper smelter

China Nonferrous Mining

02/03/2023 11:39

BEIJING, March 2 (Reuters) - Executives from state-owned
China Nonferrous Metals Mining Group Co Ltd (CNMC) met the
Kazakh government to discuss investment in a 300,000 tonne
copper cathode plant in Kazakhstan, Kazakh state news agency
Kazinform reported on Thursday. 
    CNMC's deputy director general Liu Yu met with Kazakhstan's
Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Marat
Karabayev in the Kazakh capital Astana, state media said.
    Kazakhstan's largest copper producer Kazakhmys Corp.
 KMCP.KZ  and Kazakh miner KAZ Minerals will also participate in
the project, Kazakh state media added. 
    

 (Reporting by Andrew Hayley; editing by Barbara Lewis)
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